How long does a home renovation take with Key Interiors?

Timelines vary with scope. A kitchen or bathroom renovation typically takes 3-6 weeks, while a complete home renovation can span 8-12 weeks, with every detail managed professionally for a seamless result.

Do I need council consent for my renovation?

Only for structural or plumbing changes. Key Interiors will help you navigate all necessary approvals if required.

Can I live in the home during the renovation?

Yes, in many cases. Key Interiors works to minimise disruption, and your dedicated project manager keeps you updated throughout.

Do you provide fixed quotes?

Yes. After your design phase, we provide a transparent fixed-price quote with a clear scope, materials and timeline before any building begins.

What does a renovation cost in Auckland?

As a guide: bathroom renovations from $25,000, kitchen renovations from $35,000, and complete home renovations from $150,000. We work with your budget to deliver the best value.

Finished laundry renovation in Bayswater, Auckland: Dezignatek Pistachio shaker cabinetry, stone benchtop and ABI Interiors brushed brass

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Laundry Renovation in Bayswater: Beresford Street

Where it started

The most-used room in the house was the worst room in the house

Cream melamine uppers with frosted glass, beige splashback tiles, a shallow stainless tub and a bench you couldn't fold a towel on. Every cupboard was full and none of it was sorted. The plastic pull-out hampers had given up years ago.

The layout wasn't the problem. It's a galley, and a galley is the right answer for a room this shape. The problem was that nothing in it had been chosen. It had accumulated.

Dated 1990s galley laundry in Bayswater before renovation, cream melamine cupboards and beige tiles — Before. Cream melamine, frosted glass, beige splashback, and the dark tiled floor that ended up staying.

Old plastic pull-out laundry hampers before the Bayswater laundry renovation — The old pull-out hampers, long past it.

The plan

Designed as one wall, not a row of cupboards

Every laundry we build starts as a drawn elevation with real dimensions on it, because a laundry is won or lost in millimetres. Where the washer sits decides where the bench breaks. Where the bench breaks decides where the sink goes. Where the sink goes decides the tap.

On this wall we set out floor-to-ceiling storage at the far end, a full-length bench over the appliances, a butler sink at the working end, and a brass rail running the whole length underneath the uppers for hanging. Bin and hamper pull-outs went into the joinery instead of sitting on the floor.

Custom laundry joinery elevation drawing with dimensions for the Bayswater renovation — The joinery elevation. Dimensions, appliance bay, sink position and hardware, agreed before anything was ordered.

The strip-out

Back to the studs

Bayswater laundry stripped back to bare timber studs during renovation, original tiled floor retained — Cabinetry, benchtop, splashback, tub, tapware and wall linings all gone. Framing, capped pipework and tagged wiring left. New Aqualine GIB and waterproofing went on before a single cabinet came back.

This is the honest part of a renovation and it's the part nobody photographs. Once a room is open you can see what you're actually dealing with, and you can move a waste or a power point for the cost of an hour instead of the cost of a callback.

Look at the floor in that photo. It's the same floor that's in every finished shot on this page.

The build

How it went back together

Dezignatek Series 3 shaker cabinetry in Pistachio being installed in the Bayswater laundry — Joinery first. Sprayed off site, landing still wrapped.

White fireclay butler sink and brushed brass tap installed against bare wet-area board — Benchtop and butler sink in, against the bare wet-area board.

Handmade Zellige splashback tile sample held against the laundry wall — Tile chosen on site, not off a sample card.

White square tile splashback complete in the Bayswater laundry renovation — Splashback done, ready for fit-off.

Joinery first. Dezignatek Series 3 custom shaker doors and drawer fronts in Pistachio, sprayed off site and landing still wrapped. Floor-to-ceiling cupboards at the far end, appliance bay under the bench.

Then the benchtop and the sink. A single run of speckled white engineered stone over the full length, and a white fireclay butler sink dropped in at the working end. That's the photo where a laundry stops looking like a utility room.

Then the splashback. Handmade Zellige tile, chosen against the board on site rather than off a sample card, because that glaze reads completely differently in the actual light of the actual room.

Then fit-off. ABI Interiors brushed brass throughout: gooseneck pull-down mixer, custom knobs and handles, and the full-length hanging rail. Then appliances back in, and paint.

The bit worth stealing

We didn't touch the floor

The existing dark marble-look tile was in good condition, it was neutral, and it worked with sage and brass. So it stayed.

Lifting a tiled floor in a wet area means demolition, waterproofing, new tile, new labour and a delay while it all cures. Keeping a floor that's already good is the single easiest way to put your budget into the things people actually look at: the joinery, the benchtop, the sink and the tapware.

The same floor is in the before shot, the stripped-to-the-studs shot and every finished shot on this page. Most people don't notice. That's the point.